Mark Hosford

Artist's Statement

As a child with an overactive imagination, I often envisioned the world as nothing more than dolls and creatures acting out fantastic narratives. I had a hard time keeping my head in reality and I never knew when something I was staring at would become a door into another world. When I slept, I was constantly visited by fantastic imaginings. My dreams were inescapable and graphic, filling my mind with vivid pictures to recreate.

My work focusing on ghosts explores humankind’s ongoing fascination with ghosts, spirits and the unknown. In many of these drawings, I researched and illustrated actual reported events that are surrounded by myth and legend, while other drawings became newly imagined scenarios. this work explores ways in which people contact an unseen world, such as the use of ouija boards and other ceremonies.

– MH

Artist's Bio

Mark Hosford is an Associate Professor of Art at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Selected Exhibitions & Awards: 2008 – Ghost Stories, Solo Exhibition, Taylor Bercier Fine Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; Unseen and Undead, The 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida; Evil Prints, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Fantastical Imaginings, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware; Artist in Residence, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium. 2007 – Homegrown Southeast, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; The Boston Printmakers 2007 North American Print Biennial, 808 Gallery at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. 2006 – Irony and Allegory, Solo Exhibition, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee.